Robes Modeles Historiques, Chevrière
12th plate of album with 60 19th-century costume plates and 1 drawing of mostly women's historical costumes, featuring a variety of designs for traditional costumes from different parts of the world, as well as costumes for literary characters, such as Esmeralda. This plate consists of a woman wearing a costume for a Goatherd, made up of a dark blue jacket with cream-and-blue details on the neck, lapels and cuffs, over a cream shirt with ruffled neck and cuffs, and a cream skirt with thin, vertical, blue stripes under a blue overskirt tied to the side. She wears a straw hat with a thin garland of roses and leaves and a blue ribbon, blue stockings, and dark-blue low heels with ribbons. She holds a thin bundle of yellow, pink and blue flowers on green stems in her hand.
Artwork Details
- Title: Robes Modeles Historiques, Chevrière
- Designer: M. Robin (French, active ca. 1830–50)
- Publisher: Ancienne Maison Martinet , Paris, 127 r. de Rivoli
- Lithographer: Imp. LeMercier & Cie Paris
- Date: 19th century
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 7/8 in. (44 × 30.2 cm)
Album: 17 11/16 × 12 5/8 × 1 in. (45 × 32 × 2.5 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
- Object Number: 32.46.7(12)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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